Gerhard Struber: Bristol City name Austrian as Liam Manning’s successor

Ed Hadwin, BBC Radio Bristol:

Gerhard Struber is only Bristol City’s second-ever manager from mainland Europe, and their first since Swede Benny Lennartsson’s shortlived spell at Ashton Gate, which lasted just eight months and ended in July 1999.

Struber’s only spell managing in England came in 2019-20, when he kept Barnsley in the Championship, before then moving to the City Football Group where he managed teams in both New York and Salzburg, before his spell at Cologne.

He is taking over a Robins squad which enjoyed the club’s best season in nearly 20 years, having finished sixth in the Championship.

They have not lost any of their senior players and look likely to add at least a couple of new faces this summer.

Given that solid base to work from and an impressive win percentage across his career, it’s a very interesting appointment and one that seems to have grabbed the imagination of City fans.